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The Uyghurs are the indigenous people of East Turkestan (known as Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in present China), a land occupied by the communist China in 1949 and equivalent to the one sixth of the total China's territory. Since 2009, Chinese government intensified its ethnic cleansing policy towards the Uyghurs under a cult of stability.

At the moment, several types of contacts, including money sending-receiving, between the Uyghurs in China and those abroad are completely cut-off. Also, the parents and/or close relatives of the many Uyghurs living abroad are being held either in jails or in "Nazi-style" political re-education concentration camps (https://freedomsherald.wordpress.com/2017/12/18/china-detains-uyghurs-in-nazi-style-camps/ ) in East Turkestan. Most Uyghurs live outside China cannot call and send text messages to parents and siblings back home, due to the fear that their loved ones may end up either in jails or in so-called “re-education centers”. We have recently learned from some sources back home that the number of the Uyghurs currently being held in jails and in “re-education camps” is more than 800,000. This is an official estimation and actual number could be much higher than this. We have also learned that the Uyghurs, who travelled to one of the 26 Muslim countries in Chinese government’s list and returned to China regardless of their age, male or female, are being sentenced to 10 years of jail term right at the airport and being taken directly to a jail in China from the airport. We have reliable information about several cases, involving victims, as mentioned above. Additionally, Exiled Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui exposed China’s abuse of the Uyghurs and said: “To speak honestly, people always say Chinese citizens are treated like pigs and dogs, but the people of East Turkestan and Tibet don’t even have the opportunity to be treated like pigs and dogs. I feel great pity for them.” (https://freedomsherald.wordpress.com/2017/11/22/chinese-exiled-billionaire-guo-wengui-exposes-chinas-abuse-of-the-uyghurs/)

The current situation in East Turkestan is severely damaging the mental health of the Uyghur people abroad, and some students have reached to a level of mentally breaking-down, without being able to pay their tuition and living cost, and without being able to know whether their parents and/or siblings are still alive – most Uyghurs abroad have not been able to communicate, even once, with their parents and/or siblings in East Turkestan for more than 8 months. So, the Uyghur people outside China started the new year with deep frustration, worries, fear and depression, because they have no way of knowing or getting news about their parents and siblings: If they are still alive or dead, and if they are in prison or in concentration camps .

As part of the Uyghurs studying, working and living abroad, we are asking that the Chinese government to end its inhuman policies forced upon the Uyghurs in East Turkistan, China, and abroad. We demand the Chinese government to do following:

1. Close the “political re-education camps”; they are in violation of the China’s relevant laws and the relevant international regulations;

2. Stop the policy that prohibits the Uyghurs in East Turkestan travel to a foreign country and the Uyghurs abroad travel to East Turkestan;

3. Guarantee that the Uyghurs abroad can receive money from, send money to and communicate with their parents and/or siblings in East Turkestan;

4. Stop the surveillance of the Uyghurs who have relatives abroad, and allow them to communicate with relatives overseas;

5. Stop the surveillance and the remote control of the Uyghurs living abroad;

6. Stop interrogating the home computers and mobile phones of all the Uyghurs living in East Turkestan;

7. Stop the arbitrary search of Uyghur homes, and mandatory assignment of Han Chinese “relatives” to every Uyghur family.

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